A small knot of entangled fibres. (In the case of cotton it usually comprises dead or immature cotton hairs.)
Note: A local variation of the term, referring to flax, is nap
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Small knots of tangled fiber, usually consisting of short, dead or immature fiber, or caused by over-processing
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